Telephone-installer&#39;s omnibus number sign card



Dec. 16, 1930. G. D. cox 1,784,814

TELEPHONE INSTALLERS OMNIBUS NUMBER SIGN CARD Filed April 25 1930Patented Dec. 16, 1930 anon-ea n. cox, or PHILADELPHIA, rENNsYLvANIATELEPHONE-INSTALLERS o viivinns NiIMBER. SIGN CARD,

Application filed April 25,

The installation of telephone instruments at the present time has beencomplicated through the necessity for providing for the numbering of thesubscribers telephones by the installers, who frequently cannot knowbefore leaving the store-house, what numbers the telephones installedmust bear. This difficulty is increased also by the different types ofinstruments having different 30 forms of holders for the number displaysigns necessitating diiferently shaped number display signs. \Vhere aseries of extensions are used these difiiculties are increased.

My invented device is a card that can be 1 carried with other like cardsin a bundle by an installer. This card has cut through it a series ofdiscs which are just sufficiently attached to the other portion of thecard to remain secured to it and are readily pushed out, whichhaveperforations which allow a portion of the disc to be torn off so that itcan fit in a diiferently shaped holder, the parts separated by theperforations being far more tightly secured to the main portion of thedisc than the disc as a whole is secured to the body of the card. Theface of the disc is usually a solid dark color to conceal theseperforations.

Fig. 1 is a plan of a card containing a series of number displayingdiscs. Fig. 2 is a plan of same with the discs removed. Fig. 3 is a planof a disc with the face darkened to conceal the perforation. Fig. 4 is aplan of the disc with its parts that were partly separated from it byperforations, removed so that it will have a shape to fit anotherholder. Fig. 5 is a View of a modification.

The cards are preferably made in the form of strips which may have theroundedend 2, and the small disc 3, which may be removed if the stripsare to be strung on a holder. In thiscard are the discs 4. These discs4, and the smaller disc 3, are so slightly secured to the main bodyportion of the card 1, that they can be pushed out readily and withoutany danger that by so doing the discs 4, will be torn. In practice, Imake a clean cut along the lines I), b, b, 1), extending practicallythrough the body of the card 1, leavsso. 'Serial no. 447,250.

ing only a thin sliver of paper, attaching these-discs to thebody.'--The'cut is most advantageously made fromthe face of the disc.

Perforations 7 and 8, partly sever the cen I tral portions of the disc4, from the wings 9, and 10. These wings may be of any shape by theremoval of which the disc 1, may be converted into a shape suitable forfitting into a holder of a different shape from that intended to holdthe disc 4. The portions of the paper-between the perforations hold thewings 7 and 8 much'more firmly to the central portion of the disc 1,than the latter is held in the card 1. The purpose of doing this is toassure that the disc 4, will always be pushed out from the card withouttearing it at all along the perforations 7, and 8, and hence spoilingits appearance. The disc having been pushed out from the card thetearing off of the wings 9, and 10, can be accomplished readily, andwithout trouble, even if they are held rather strongly to the 1 rest ofthe disc 4. They should be so held because the disc should hold firmlytogether as a whole when used with the wings attached to it, and theperforations should not appear strongly in it. In Fig. 5 is shown a formof disc 4, viewed from the rear when the wings 9, and 10, are eachpartly severed from the body of the disc by a cut 7", which cuts,however, much less deeply into the body of the disc 4 than the cuts79,6, and does not appear at all on the face. Parts of the device may beomitted, such as the wings 9, and 10, with the omission of theirfunctions and also quite a number of changes may be made in this devicewhich will not depart from my invention so long as they are within afair sign card, which consists of a card containing a series of discs,having around the circumferences of each of said discs a cut passingnearly through the body of the card and almost severing the disctherefrom, said discs having wings partially severed from the mainportion of the disc but much-more firmly attached thereto than the discsare to the card.

2. A telephone installers omnibus number sign card, which consists of acard in the form of a strip having means whereby this card may bemounted with other like cards on a holder, and containing a series ofdiscs having at the circumferencesof each ofsaid v discs a cut passingnearly through the body 7 of the card, and almost severing the disctherefrom, and detachable wings forming a portion of said discs.

3. The device as'defined in claim 1, wherein the discs have the wingspartly separated from the main body of the disc by perforations andhaving their faces darkened to conceal said perforations.

GEORGE D. COX.

